One Hell of a Sound
Shiro's POV
Every night I lay down to go to sleep I hear what sounds like a loud roar from something high up. I always hear it at the same time and sometimes it even sounds something like a song or maybe the start of one. It gets me wondering just what is it that could make that sound…
3rd Person POV
Shiro once again hears the loud roaring sound from high up and sits up from his bed. "Tonight I find out what that is." He thinks before getting back into his normal clothes and grabbing a bag of things he'd normally use to hike. He walks out of his room and quietly shuts the door, trying not to wake the others that were staying in the same chateaux as him, before he went to the front door. "Before I go I should check to make sure I have everything." He thinks as he looks through his bag to be sure he had everything he needed.
"Shiro? What're you doing?" A brunette boy asks.
"I keep hearing this loud sound up in the mountains and I'm gonna go find out what it is. You can go back to sleep Lance, just tell the other two where I am if I'm not back by morning." Shiro answers.
Lance yawns and starts heading back to his room. "It must be one hell of a sound if it's got you going to find it." He says before shutting his bedroom door.
Shiro smiles to himself and heads out.
~ Time Skip ~
Shiro gets to the top of the mountain and looks around when he hears a few people talking. "Is something going on?" He thinks before cautiously going over to a rock and peeking around it to see a black wolf laying in the dirt in front of a pair of hunters. "That wolf is the same one I've seen in a few dreams…" He thinks before stepping out into plain sight. "Step away from the wolf." He says.
"And who are you to make us huh? We found this wolf fair and square now buzz off." One of the hunters says.
"Not a chance in hell." Shiro says as he takes a step closer.
The two hunters get a bit intimidated by Shiro's stature and gulp before they run off.
Shiro smirks a bit and goes over to the injured wolf.
The wolf gets a bit defensive and growls a little before yelping.
"It's ok buddy, I'm gonna help you. I don't think your breed belongs up here so how about I get you to someplace warmer and get you patched up. Then I can take you to a forest where you really belong ok?" Shiro softly says.
The wolf whines a bit but then nods as if he can understand what Shiro said.
Shiro smiles a bit and gently lifts the wolf in a way that he wouldn't be hurting him and carries him back down to the Chateaux to patch him up.
The wolf doesn't protest and just leans into Shiro as they go.
After getting back to the Chateaux, Shiro goes to his room and places the wolf in his bed and covers him up a little before leaving the room to get a first aid kit to patch him up, but when he walked back into the room from getting a first aid kit he saw an injured, seemingly naked, passed out, young boy in his bed making him extremely confused. "W-what the quiznak?! W-where did he come from?" He thinks before a few things clink in his head. "That boy IS the wolf that I found. That's why he was able to understand me. I wonder how long he's been alone…" He thinks before getting to work with patching the boy up.
~ Time Skip ~
Shiro puts the first aid kit away and grabs some extra clothes for the boy before sitting on the edge of the bed and hesitantly putting a hand on the raven-haired boy's shoulder.
The boy's eyes snap open and he sits up quickly making him wince.
"Easy, easy. It's ok." Shiro softly says.
The boy looks at him and gulps a bit. "W-where am I?" He asks; his mind being in a bit of a blur.
"You're in a Chateaux that sits at the base of the mountain you were on." Shiro answers.
"Ok, but who are you?" The raven-haired boy asks.
"My name is Takashi Shirogane, but you can just call me Shiro." Shiro replies. "What's your name?" He asks.
"Keith…" The boy answers.
"Do you know why you were on that mountain?" Shiro asks.
Keith shakes his head. "No. All I remember is an echoing sound that I think came from me every night for the last 10 years, getting shot, seeing you save me, and then waking up here." He says.
"An echoing sound? Did it sound like this at all?" Shiro asks before playing a recording he made of the sound he always heard at night: the noble howl of a wolf.
Keith's eyes widen. "Yes that's the sound I heard." He says.
"It fits since you were a wolf when I found you." Shiro says.
"I-I was?" Keith asks.
Shiro nods. "Yeah, but there was not really any other sign of you being human at all." He says.
"Is that why you said what you said earlier?" Keith asks.
Shiro nods. "Yeah. I honestly didn't know you were human at all." He says.
Keith nods and sees the clothes Shiro had in his lap. "A-are those for me?" He asks.
Shiro looks at the clothes and smiles a bit as he looks back at Keith. "Yeah. I figured you'd rather have something covering you rather than just a blanket." He softly says as he hands them to the raven-haired boy.
Keith gently takes them and smiles a bit. "Thanks."
"I'll let you get dressed while I go get you a few things from the kitchen ok?" Shiro says.
Keith nods and smiles a bit.
Shiro gets up and goes to the kitchen to give Keith some privacy and to get him something to eat along with some water.
Keith puts the clothes on and smiles a bit at how well they fit.
Shiro walks back to his room and knocks on the door. "Keith? Are you dressed?" He softly asks.
"Y-yeah, you can come in." Keith says as he leans back into the pillows as he kept a hand over his injury.
Shiro opens the door and walks into the room holding a bowl of hot soup in his hand along with a bottle of water in his elbow.
"I-is that stuff for me too?" Keith asks.
"You looked like you could use it so yeah." Shiro says as he closes the door quietly and walks over to the bed.
"You don't have to be so nice to me ya know." Keith says as he gently takes the bowl of soup he was handed.
"Why wouldn't I be nice to you?" Shiro asks.
Keith shrugs.
"You haven't seen this much kindness much have you…" Shiro says.
Keith kinda just looks at his soup and shakes his head before putting a spoonful in his mouth.
Shiro sighs a little through his nose and looks at the raven-haired boy. "Well from today on you're gonna see more of the kindness you didn't receive." He says.
Keith nearly chokes on his soup and looks at him surprised. "R-really?" He stuttered.
Shiro nods and smiles gently.
~ Time Skip ~
The following morning, Shiro wakes up but doesn't see Keith. "Oh no where'd he go?!" He thinks before quickly getting up and getting dressed.
"Hey Shiro? Can you come into the living room for a sec?" Lance calls out.
Shiro went to the living room and saw Keith, in his wolf form, asleep on the couch.
"How did this wolf get in the house and why is it here?" Lance asks.
"First of all, this wolf is a he, and his name is Keith; second, He didn't belong on the mountain and he got shot so I brought him here to patch him up." Shiro says.
Lance looks at Shiro as if he was kinda crazy. "Are you serious? Just because a wolf was shot you bring it here to patch it up?! What if it attacks someone?" He says.
"HE won't attack anyone; if he did it would've been me first but he didn't." Shiro says.
Keith starts waking up and yawns as he stretches a bit.
Shiro looks at Keith and smiles a bit.
Keith picks his head up and yawns again and his ears get a little floppy from his morning sluggishness.
"Morning Keith." Shiro says.
Keith looks at Shiro and smiles a bit as his tail lazily sways.
Shiro pats his head. "Come eat something ok?" He says before going into the kitchen.
Keith nods and shifts into his human form, still fully clothed, and gets up to follow Shiro.
Lance looked extremely shocked and blinks a few times not believing his eyes. "D-did he just change from a wolf to a human?! Damn!" He thinks.
Keith walks into the kitchen and leans on the counter near Shiro.
"How come you slept on the couch? My bed is big enough for two." Shiro says.
"I didn't feel right...I don't know why but I just didn't. I mean I guess I could try it should the opportunity come up again…" Keith says.
Shiro nods and instinctively kisses Keith's head before making something for breakfast.
Keith blushes and gulps before looking at Shiro. "What was that?" He asks.
"What was what?" Shiro asks as as he gets some pancake batter mixed into a bowl.
"The thing on my head that you did, what was that?" Keith asks.
"O-oh that, uh..it was a kiss. Was that ok? I mean did you not like it?" Shiro says as he blushes.
"N-no it's not that I didn't like it i-it's just that I didn't uh…" Keith says before losing his train of thought.
Shiro looks at Keith after pouring some of the pancake batter into a pan. "You didn't what?" He asks.
"I-I don't remember what I was going to say after that." Keith admits.
Shiro flips the pancake over. "Would you mind if I got to know you better after breakfast?" He asks.
"I wouldn't mind at all." Keith says.
Shiro smiles as he continues to make breakfast.
~ Time Skip ~
Keith rinses his plate and hears footsteps near him making him turn; only to see Shiro. "Oh hey." He says.
Shiro smiles and puts his plate in the sink too. "So would you rather talk in the house or outside?" He asks.
"So he really did mean he wanted to get to know me…" Keith thinks. "Inside is fine, and whichever room I honestly don't mind any other way." He says.
Shiro nods and leads him to the sun room of the house and sits with him on the couch.
"So what did you wanna know?" Keith asks.
"Well, I was wondering if you remembered where you were from; ya know like where you grew up." Shiro says.
"Texas, but as for where specifically I can't remember." Keith says.
Shiro nods. "He's a long way from home being up in Maine for so long." Shiro thinks.
~ Time Skip ~
After a while of talking about each other, Keith gets up and stretches a bit.
"Too long sitting down?" Shiro asks.
"Kinda." Keith answers.
"I kinda forgot to ask, but if you're from Texas then what're you doing all the way up here in Maine?" Shiro asks.
"I don't remember that either; it's been a bit too long…" Keith replies as he leans on the window with a sort of longing look in his eyes.
"Do you miss Texas?" Shiro asks.
"Not really, but I don't really like it here either." Keith says.
"Is there no one back home that you wanna see or something?" Shiro asks.
"That's exactly it. My parents are both gone and I didn't really make any friends." Keith says as a frown makes its way onto his lips.
Shiro didn't like to see that frown so he goes over to the raven-haired boy and gently hugs him. "Well you can stay with me then." He says.
"W-wait what? Seriously?" Keith asks.
"Yeah. I'm only in Maine for a vacation, and I've been here a full week so I'll be heading back to California tomorrow so you can come with me." Shiro says.
"Oh, I thought you lived here." Keith says smiling a little.
Shiro hesitantly kisses Keith's head again before going to go sit down again.
Keith blushes and makes a gutsy move by gently grabbing Shiro's shirt. "W-wait a sec…" He says.
Shiro looks at him. "What is it?" He asks.
Keith gulps a bit. "W-why do you keep doing that?" He asks.
"What? Kissing your head?" Shiro asks.
"Yes that." Keith answers.
Shiro blushes a bit and turns to face the purple-eyed boy. "Because I like you, but I know it would be a bit too soon to really say that we should be together; then again, that's why I wanted to get to know you." He says.
Keith blushes. "How do you tell if you like someone?" He asks.
"You want to see them more than average, you want to know more about them, and you get a sort of tingly feeling in the pit of your stomach." Shiro says as he gets a bit closer to Keith.
"T-then I like you too because that explains everything I've been feeling ever since I met you." Keith says.
"Then you'll definitely be staying with me when we head back to California." Shiro says.
Keith smiles a bit and hugs him. "I look forward to it." He says.
"Good to hear." Shiro softly says before kissing Keith's head once again.